Geisha Roasters — Costa Rica – Don Alexis¶

Costa Rica · Los Santos · Don Alexis (1,750–2,000 m) · Centroamericano (F1 hybrid) · anaerobic natural · light-medium

✅ dialed recipe

xBloom recipe¶

💧 Rinse the paper filter first — seat it in the Omni dripper, pop the dripper off the machine, rinse under the tap in cold water, tip the water out, then re-attach and brew. Washes out any papery taste.

Pours

1. 1Bloom🌡️ 92 °C · 🌀 spiral · ⏸ 70 s · 🔀 agitate after60 ml
2. 2Main pour🌡️ 90 °C · 🌀 spiral · ⏸ 5 s180 ml

⬇ Download this recipe (.yaml) for the xBloom CLI

Notes: chocolate · grapefruit · walnut · florals

A Costa Rican Centroamericano — an F1 hybrid of the rust-resistant T5296 and the Ethiopian landrace Rume Sudan — grown at 1,750–2,000 m in Los Santos on Don Alexis, the Ramírez-Navarro family's farm, and processed as an anaerobic natural dried on patios. The roaster lists chocolate, grapefruit, walnut and florals.

Why these numbers. An anaerobic natural turns bitter when pushed, so this starts at grind 60 — the middle of the range the other filter coffees here were dialed to, and where two earlier anaerobic naturals landed — with the main pour at 90 °C (91 °C until the first cup, on 30 September, came out a touch bitter). At a month off roast most of the CO₂ is gone, so a 60 ml bloom (4× dose) held 70 s is enough to saturate and settle the bed; a single spiral main pour then keeps the fines down and the grapefruit and florals apart from the chocolate. RPM 120 for lift. 1:16 rather than wider: the chocolate and walnut side wants a little body to carry it.

Off? one change at a time:

• Sour / thin / hollow → stretch the bloom to 90 s first, then grind 59.
• Still bitter / drying / heavy on the walnut → coarser, grind 61 (the main pour is already down to 90 °C).
• Still foaming after the bloom → the bloom was too short; stretch it to 90 s.

Roasted by Geisha Roasters¶

A young Madrid roastery (2025) named for the variety it most wants to roast — three tiers, from everyday single origins up to a Reserve line of Geishas.

More about Geisha Roasters →

Using these recipes with the xBloom CLI¶

Each recipe above downloads in the format used by the open-source xbloom-ble CLI (pip install xbloom-ble) — unofficial Bluetooth control for the xBloom Studio, with a terminal UI and a live brew graph. By default xbloom brew loads a recipe onto the machine and you approve it on the device; pass --start to brew remotely instead.

xbloom brew geisha-roasters-don-alexis.yaml           # load onto the machine (approve on-device)
xbloom brew https://xbloom.lodywgumce.tv/r/geisha-roasters-don-alexis.yaml   # …or straight from its URL
xbloom tui                       # …or drive it all from the terminal UI